🍏For me, it’s an intriguing piece of British engineering history on my route past our train station.
The K4, designed by the Post Office Engineering Department in 1927, was a multi-functional phone booth featuring a telephone, post box, and stamp machines. Only 50 were made, but they had issues: noise from the stamp machines disturbed callers, and damp weather often ruined the stamps. Today, just ten remain, serving as quirky relics of a bygone era.
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🍏 I only recently discovered this bit of history. Amazing how you can run past things and not really take note 🤣 I am sure you have all sorts of other interesting things. How are you recovering? Mine is soooo frustratingly slow!! Xx
I'm doing ok thanks, iif you count, make food, eat food, sleep as progress, considering in hospital everything was brought to my bed, I have little energy or strength but I'm keeping moving a bit so hopeful I'll recover a bit at a time.It's frustrating though isn't it? Xx
Here I am... I wrote a long reply last night and then deleted it!
Your Question of the month.... well... I have so many fascinating things, in my head, I had to think hard of which one, So, my most recent!
Okay.... it is a wall...!
Yes.... a wall.
About 5'6 high, and about 7.8'long. Big grey stones and little sharp shards of stone on the top.
I have run past it loads of times on wet day or short runs, for a lot of years... but last week, I stopped and really looked at it. I had to pause, to let some one pass me, so was right by it...
I really looked. Felt the stones, tried to peer over it , too high and took photos...
When I got back... I researched... what was the wall doing there... ? Fascination coming up!
So... I discovered that the wall was the remaining bit of a larger wall.
A wall that wrapped its way around a garden.
A huge garden, with meadow areas and with formal walks;
A huge garden that wrapped itself around a house.
A HUGE house, mullioned windows and ivy clad tower...think NT
Blythe House !
I have lived in the village for forty years and never knew.... ! But I do know now!
You learn something new, every day... Fascinating !
Great question Annie....
I have other fascinating things too, including, a haunted lane and a singing Hollow...but those are for another day! x
🍏 Oh I knew you would find something amazing!! Now I definitely want to put that on my bucket list of places to run!! Thank you 🤩 Sorry about the long reply that had to be deleted..but glad you did this one!! Xx
Oh, for me it's a wall as well - or actually the remains of one. Here in New Hampshire there are lots of these stacked-stone wall remains in the forest, dating back to the 1800s when settlers tried to make a living by farming the land and keeping livestock. These walls were meant to keep the livestock (sheep, mostly) in. I run over and across one on my route! If you don't know it's a wall, you'd probably assume they're some random boulders strewn across the trail
🍏 Well he is a fun addition in the park. Sculptures in parks, National Trust or English Heritage places could be something to look out for & enjoy on our runs..
My strange thing on my run is the pointless staircase chain. I actually posted about this on Bridge to 10k the other week.
My route runs parallel to a tidal river with high sea defences to protect the town. There are footpaths on the sea wall and below it. The Environment Agency (or somesuch) has kindly put a staircase where it's highest, but they have put a chain across it to stop people using it. It's a really effective deterrent lol
For me it symbolises all the petty things we see as blocking our progress, the ones that slow us down and stop us doing things when all you really need to do is take a step to the side and the obstacle disappears
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